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21
SCREEN CAPTURE TOOLS
A picture is worth a thousand words. Using a
screen capture tool to capture all or part of your
screen and save it in a graphic format can be
extremely useful.
Sometimes you need to capture something "in
the moment". Other times, a picture will help you
explain how you've set something up (searches,
database views, etc.) for someone. Screen capture
tools come with the ability to capture part of your
screen, highlight and draw with different colors
to help draw attention to the important part of the
screenshot.
The end use of the capture is also important.
The tradeoff in using screen capture software versus a native image is that you may see a degradation in image quality in
the captured image – be sure to qc and look for pixelization which will lower the quality of your presentation. If you are
getting "pixelized" work like the example in Figure 3 try capturing the image at a higher resolution or zooming into the
source image before capturing for a higher quality capture.
- Shannon Lex Bales,
The Trial Presentation Companion,
A Step-by-Step Guide to Presenting Electronic Evidence in the Courtroom
F I G U R E 3 - P I X E L I Z AT I O N E X A M P L E
If you are using screenshots to prepare guides and instructions, be mindful of not inadvertently
including confidential information. You may want to use a more robust tool that includes a pixelating feature
to preserve confidentiality of some information. For example, the location of a file within a structure may be
important to show, but not the other folder names:
